title: [About the professional identity in nursing: punctual reconsiderations in philosophical vision].
abstract: This paper is a contribution to the 80th years of the Brazilian Nursing Journal, official journal of the Brazilian Nurses Association, first nominated Nursing Annals and created in May 1932. At that time, the issues were focused as proposals to assure exchange communication between the Professional Class -the National Brazilian Graduate Nurses Association - and the associates, including all the people. In this way, the associate leaders were impelled through professional advances allied to the knowledge production regarding to the Professional Know/Knowledge, the practice assistance and education. The approach is through discussion and analytical appreciation about professional identity with punctual reconsiderations in philosophical vision. Instead of researching parameters the author prefers a pragmatic style around examples of three situations-problem as succeeded in the practical assistance, so that they could be critically appreciated alike fundamental basis to the nurses' art and enough to assure the definition of the professional profile in the historical-evolutive trajectory - with beginning in the nightingalean modernity and the proper assumed parsonian concepts - as such they are observed in the Brazilian Nursing literature. Without through off the subject, only the specific questions are submitted. Key words: Nursing; Professional Identity; Nurse Art.
authors.forename: Vilma
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: de Carvalho
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D009729:Nursing; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012933:Social Identification